Why Foreign Real Estate Is a Grand Slam

In baseball, a grand slam is the most potent move possible in a single play. It happens when a player hits a home run with the bases loaded, scoring four runs.

This is why I say owning foreign real estate is an international diversification grand slam. It accomplishes four key goals at once.

1. Move Savings and Wealth Abroad

Owning foreign real estate moves some of your savings and wealth offshore and out of your home government’s immediate reach. Unlike an intangible financial account, it is effectively impossible for your home country to seize foreign real estate at the drop of a hat. Doing so would likely take a literal act of war.

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2. Create Other Internationalization Options

In most cases, owning real estate in a foreign country makes it much easier to open a financial account there. Without that entry ticket, many foreign financial institutions will show you the door, especially if you’re an American.

Buying foreign real estate usually gives you some sort of residency, sometimes a shortened path to citizenship, and in the case of one particular country, immediate citizenship and a coveted second passport with visa-free travel to over 100 countries, including the Schengen Area (26 European countries).

Owning foreign real estate also gives you a second home, a possible place to retire, and an emergency "bolt-hole" if there’s ever trouble in your home country.

3. Portfolio Diversification

Foreign real estate is a tangible hard asset with diversification benefits for a traditional portfolio of stocks, bonds, precious metals, etc. It has the potential for capital appreciation and the ability to generate rental income in a foreign currency.

Of course there are downsides to investing in foreign real estate, including paperwork, real estate’s illiquidity, carrying costs, and country/market specific risks. However, when you weigh those risks against the benefits, it’s clear that foreign real estate is one of the best routes to political diversification.

P.S. It’s never been more important to diversify than now.

Doug Casey, the original International Man, believes we’re approaching the eye of a financial hurricane. One that threatens to be far worse than 2008 and the Great Depression.

This is exactly why Doug and his team have put together a time-sensitive video explaining how it could all go down. Click here for the details.

Until next time,

Nick Giambruno
Senior Editor, International Man

P.S. It’s never been more important to diversify than now.

Doug Casey, the original International Man, believes we’re approaching the eye of a financial hurricane. One that threatens to be far worse than 2008 and the Great Depression.

This is exactly why Doug and his team have put together a time-sensitive video explaining how it could all go down. Click here to watch it now.

Nick Giambruno

Nick is Doug Casey's globetrotting companion and is the Senior Editor of Casey Research's International Man. He writes about economics, offshore banking, second passports, value investing in crisis markets, geopolitics, and surviving a financial collapse, among other topics. He is a CFA charterholder. In short, Nick's work helps people make the most of their personal freedom and financial opportunity around the world. To get his free video crash course, click here.

Nick Giambruno

Nick is Doug Casey’s globetrotting companion and is the Senior Editor of Casey Research’s International Man. He writes about economics, offshore banking, second passports, value investing in crisis markets, geopolitics, and surviving a financial collapse, among other topics. He is a CFA charterholder. In short, Nick’s work helps people make the most of their personal freedom and financial opportunity around the world. To get his free video crash course, click here.